CommuNitY
When a championship drought is finally met with confetti rain, all attention is immediately turned to the long suffering fans that have waited for this title.
The families that are raising their kids to be fans, the eldery who remember that last title, and those that have passed on but are brought into the celebration through mementos in graveyards.
Now, take that energy, multiple it by one thousand, and you still wouldn’t be able to fully quantify the celebration that has been going on in new york this week.
How do you try to write about fandom when it seems that every angle has been covered? There’s been a whole economic movement powered by knicks fans (Knick-enomics?), the countless watch parties hosted by the likes of Radio City to a funeral parlor, and every influencer attempting to master the art of the sidewalk interview.
Yet, even with that variety of coverage, every single story shared the same common thread: the joy around and need for a community that was found through their sports team; the very thing this journal tries to cover.
What follows is a collection of stories from countless knick fans on how they want to ensure there is no drought to the communal surge they are currently experiencing